August sees the first Opera North Summer Orchestra Camp which has been designed to help budding orchestral players perfect their skills, and acquire some exciting new ones, before performing in a concert with the full Orchestra of Opera North.
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Into the Woods, our first major collaboration with West Yorkshire Playhouse, opened last week! See below a selection of production photos and audience feedback that has been coming in through Twitter.
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Soprano Alwyn Mellor has withdrawn from scheduled performances in Opera North’s Ring for personal reasons, to be replaced by Lee Bisset as Sieglinde and Kelly Cae Hogan as Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung.
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Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Rapunzel and a couple of princes are just some of the fairytale characters currently to be found at the West Yorkshire Playhouse as the Chorus of Opera North prepare to venture Into the Woods.&nbs... Read More

Opera North is delighted to announce upcoming mainstage work for 2016/17, with six brand new productions including Britten’s masterly Billy Budd and Rimsky-Korsakov’s delightful and rarely performed The Snow Maiden.
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Opera North welcomes Lars Cleveman to the title role in Siegfried as the company starts its highly anticipated tour of Wagner’s full Der Ring des Nibelungen at Leeds Town Hall later this month.
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Southbank Centre today announce a new festival, Power of Power, programmed around Opera North’s highly-anticipated production of The Ring, which depicts a seductive world of gods, giants, dwarves and heroes caught between love and power.
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For the second year, we'll be taking to the road from Leeds to Henham Park in Suffolk for Latitude Festival, to present a live performance of non-stop music in an otherworldly setting on the evening of Thursday 14 July.
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With two nights already sold out, Opera North has scheduled another performance of their new chamber opera, Pleasure, created by the young composer Mark Simpson and writer Melanie Challenger with Lesley Garrett in the lead role.
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Box Office opening times for over the phone and counter sales during the holiday period for Leeds Grand Theatre, Theatre Royal, Newcastle, The Lowry, Salford Quays and Theate Royal, Nottingham. Online booking is available throughout the holiday period, 24/7.
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The Marriage of Figaro and Jenůfa are shortlisted for the prestigious awards, selected from performances that were reviewed for WhatsOnStage between December 2014 and November 2015 inclusive.
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The new season at the Howard Assembly Room includes visits from three generations of hugely renowned musicians from across Africa, and events inspired by Opera North's main stage operas Andrea Chénier and the Ring Cycle.
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